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Patented July 23, 1895.

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WITNESSES:

. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY H. BATE S, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

PORTABLE HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 543,121, dated July 23,1895.

Application filed May 13, 1895- Serial No. 549,139- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY H. BATES,3. citizen of the United States,residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have in ventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Portable Hooks; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a. full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

Reference is made to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of thisspecification, in which Figure 1 illustrates my device, in partialsection, closed. Fig. 2 shows the device when opened, as in use. Fig. 3shows a rear view of the same with folded screw. A cheaper form in whichthe screw alone folds is shown in Fig. 4, with the screw extended atfull length.

My invention relates to hooks for suspending garments upon a wall; andit consists in a portable hook and attaching means which can be foldedand carried in the pocket for travelers use. It frequently happens thattravelers and others are caught in circumstances where it would be veryconvenient to hang up a coat or overcoat, as in a watercloset at arailway-station, but no means are supplied. A device like mine, foldedin compact and small compass and carried in the pocket, proves worthmany times its cost in such emergencies.

Referring to the drawings, A is the body of the device recessed, asshown, and having at one end a hook B, suitable for suspending a garmentfrom and preferably folding against the stem or body for convenience ofcarriage by a rule or stop joint d.

a a are bosses on the stem at the rear for steadying the device whenattached to the wall. At or near the other end I attach a gimlet-pointedscrew 0, hinged or pivoted like a knife-blade, in connection with aspring, as s, and having a squared shoulder with stop, as 6, so as to beheld either closed within the stem, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, or openat right angles, as shown in Fig. 2. It may also be opened out at fulllength in a right line with the body or stem, as shown in Fig. 4. Whenabout to be used the screw is opened and screwed by turning the stem asa handle into any woodwork convenient for the purpose,as a Wainscot,door, or partition, where it will be found of ample strength to sustainany ordinary burdenlikely to be placed on the hook. It may be used tohang baskets or bundles on, and the device will also be found useful asa door-fastener, where bolts are insufficient, by screwing it into thecrack of the door near the lock, or it can be utilized as a corkscrew inemergency.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A portable garment hook, having atone end a folding gimlet pointedscrew by which it may be securely attached to a Wainscot or wall whenopened, or safely carried in the pocket when closed, substantially asspecified.

2. A portable hook having a hollow or recessed stem, as A, with a gimletpointed screw pivoted at one end thereof and folding into the recess ofthe stem, whereby the device is made convenient for pocket carriage,substantially as specified.

'3. A portable garment hook consisting of a recessed body or stem, afolding stop jointed hook, and a folding screw as a means of attachmentto a wall, Wainscot, door or partition, substantially as specified.

4. The pocket utensil herein described, comprising the recessed body orstem A, hook B, and folding spring controlled screw 0, substantially asspecified.

5. The portable utensil herein described, consisting of the recessedbody or stem A, folding stop jointed hook B, pivoted folding screw 0,square jointed and stop jointed as at e, and spring a, substantially asspecified.

6. The new article of manufacture herein described, comprising the stemor body A, pivoted screw 0, and folding hook B, pivoted and stop jointedas at d, and formed with curved outer extremity covering and protectingthe square jointed upper end of the stem when folded, substantiallyasspecified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

, HENRY H. BATES.

Witnesses: p

EDWIN L.-BRADFORD, WM. P. CHURCHILL.

